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Infor today announced Infor Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) 10x. The 10.4 version of Infor S&OP marks a major development in sales and operations planning and provides a framework for manufacturing and distribution companies to bridge the gap between operational realities and financial objectives. The release features Infor's 10x technology, which utilizes Infor ION® , a purpose-built middleware, and social collaboration engine: Infor Ming.leTM to facilitate and record internal communications across all functions and departments, as well as external communications with customers and suppliers. Infor S&OP 10x helps customers achieve financial and strategic business objectives through a mature S&OP model with greater speed and efficiency. "The introduction of the component of S&OP is a further step in the improvement and optimization of operational procedures that characterize the highly integrated operations between headquarters and markets," said Vittorio Boero, chief information officer, Ferrari. The 10x release offers the full Social S&OP functionality that enables users to work together with greater

Today AVEVA announced that JSC Giprogazoochistka (GGO) will expand its deployment of AVEVA software solutions as part of its strategy to boost project capacity.  The company has extended the use of its existing AVEVA products and will now adopt additional products, including AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Diagrams, AVEVA Instrumentation, AVEVA Review, AVEVA Engineering, AVEVA Bocad, AVEVA Cable Design and AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator. GGO is one of the most dynamic and innovative companies in Russia’s engineering and design industry. It began working with AVEVA solutions about six years ago and found implementation to be a smooth and easy process without data loss. Additionally, AVEVA’s solutions integrate seamlessly and are interoperable with a wide range of third-party solutions.  This rapid set up and early proof of effectiveness led GGO to invest more extensively in AVEVA technologies in order to make its operations more versatile and to increase efficiency more widely across the business. In

Cimatron Limited today announced that CimatronE 12, the latest version of its integrated, CAD/CAM software that combines design and NC programming solutions for mold makers, die makers and general high-end machining, will be showcased at IMTS, from September 8-13, 2014. IMTS, the International Manufacturing Technology Show that is held in Chicago, is one of the largest industrial trade shows in the world. The Cimatron Group booth will feature live demos of the new versions of the company's industry-leading products: CimatronE 12 and GibbsCAM 2015. "North American toolshops are recently experiencing an ever growing trend by which more jobs are coming back home instead of going overseas.  This is a blessing on the one hand, but it also presents a much more serious challenge to deliver tools at more competitive costs" said Bill Gibbs, President North America of the Cimatron Group. "In addition, while delivery deadlines get shorter and shorter, it is not uncommon for shops to

MSC Software Corporation is a global leader in helping product manufacturers advance their engineering methods with simulation software and services. Propelled by President Kennedy's 1962 challenge to reach the moon, it pioneered the structural engineering simulation software NASTRAN, an application that helped NASA design and test the Apollo rocket and virtually all space vehicles in the ensuing years. More recently, MSC's technology was used to safely land the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. Today, MSC's products are used at companies from Boeing to Airbus, from Toyota to BMW, from Mitsubishi to Samsung and many more. WHAT: MSC will present new methodologies for materials modeling and analysis, techniques for optimizing the design process, and strategies for making better products using materials simulation. The challenges faced by companies in today's marketplace have made materials selection and design a key part of product development. New materials such as plastics and reinforced composite materials are used

CGTech will be exhibiting at the Advanced Engineering 2014 group of events, which include the Aero Engineering and Composites Engineering shows, on stand C111 in Hall 5 on the 11th -12th November, 2014. The stand will feature the latest version 7.3 of CGTech's VERICUT Machine Tool Simulation, Verification and Feed Rate Optimisation software.  CGTech will also be showing it’s Composites Applications software for programming and simulation of Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) and Automated Tape Laying (ATL). VERICUT Machine Tool Simulation  CGTech will be showing version 7.3 of the market leading VERICUT CNC machine simulation and optimisation software. VERICUT simulates all types of CNC machining, including aerospace processes such as multi axis milling, drilling and trimming of composite parts, water jet cutting, robotic and mill/turn machining. VERICUT is used to simulate CNC machine Tools from all leading brands including Makino, Starrag, Heller, Matsuura, DMG MORI and Mazak. VERICUT runs standalone, but can also be

Lectra is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Nicolaes as Managing Director for Lectra Germany, based in Ismaning, near Munich. Chris Nicolaes is responsible for Lectra’s activities in Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia and, more globally CIS Countries. “Our customers in these markets are undergoing far-reaching structural changes. Thanks to its worldwide network, Lectra understands the mechanisms of these changes and goes far beyond providing just a technology: we can help our customers to enhance their entire business processes, especially in Fashion. Chris‘s experience as a managing director of software and PLM companies in different sectors and countries will help us to further extend our market position,” said Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO. “I am looking forward to exchanging with our customers from a wide variety of regions and industries. For more than 40 years Lectra has been offering solutions to fashion companies and, since 20 years, to customers in the

Autodesk has added Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software for its Autodesk Workshop at Pier 9 in San Francisco.  FeatureCAM will be used to program all the CNC equipment at the facility, including a DMS five-axis router and a Mori Seiki mill-turn machine. To see more about how Autodesk is using FeatureCAM, please go tohttp://www.delcam.tv/pier79 Autodesk opened its Pier 9 facility in September 2013 to support the company’s vision of helping everyone to imagine, design and create a better world.  The 27,000 square foot site is located a short walk from the company’s San Francisco headquarters. "Pier 9 is a very interesting facility because it has traditional Autodesk software alongside an incredible workshop,” explained Gonzalo Martinez, Director of Strategic Research at Autodesk.  "It has a whole floor for additive manufacturing, plus we have a metal shop and a wood shop on the site.  The best part of the whole concept is that it lets

Aras® announced the results of independent testing conducted by Logic 20/20 for the scalability of Aras Innovator 10 running Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition. Results validate optimal performance and resource utilization for 1,000,000 named users with 250,000 concurrent users - the largest testing conducted to date in the enterprise PLM industry. Aras Innovator 10 Running on SQL Server 2014 Scalability Benchmark Methodology and Performance Results report available at www.aras.com/scalability “Testing validates that Aras Innovator 10 on SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition can handle an extremely high number of concurrent users and data when running on standard server configurations,” said Anders Westby, Director of Cloud Services and Testing at Logic 20/20. “During testing the average response times were very fast, and no hardware bottlenecks were observed during any of the tests. Under the heaviest load average CPU utilization was generally below 10 percent and was never higher than 20 percent.” “SQL Server 2014 delivers

 PDF The Role of NEi Nastran in the Autodesk Simulation Portfolio Key takeaways: Autodesk continues to aggressively invest in Simulation & Analysis technologies that can be used both stand-alone and integrated with 3D CAD These simulation technologies will now be available to customers on the engineering desktop as well as via Autodesk’s 360 Cloud deployment model (see previous CIMdata Commentary on Simulation 360 in September, 2012) Autodesk’s recent acquisition of NEi Software and NEi Nastran is the next step in enabling more advanced structural simulation capabilities based on the widely used Nastran FEA solver format for structural analysis The ultimate goal and the challenge for Autodesk will be delivering robust simulation technology not only to the traditional analysis specialists, but making simulation best practices available to and readily consumable by a much broader base of engineers and designers in the overall design market Autodesk’s Design, Lifecycle, and Simulation (DLS) team, led by industry veteran Buzz Kross, recently

21st annual event takes place on October 2nd in the Detroit, Michigan area. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 4 September 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the agenda, including presentation titles, abstracts, and speakers, for PLM Road Map™ 2014. The event will be held on October 2nd at The Inn at St. John’s, located in Plymouth, Michigan. PLM Road Map is the must-attend event for industry executives and PLM practitioners globally—providing independent education and a collaborative networking environment where ideas, trends, experiences, and relationships critical to the industry germinate and take root. The theme for this year’s event is PLM-enabled continuous product development and delivery for the automotive and transportation industry and supply chain. Speaker and presentation highlights include: Anders Carlsson from Volvo Car Corporation, The Volvo Journey Dr. Nick Bell from General Motors,  Model-Based Systems Engineering and PLM John Mannisto from Whirlpool Corporation, New Age Collaboration and Design Dan